Surgeon Simulator
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $0.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2013. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 16,984
- Critics
- 71 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 15.2h 4.6x the story
- Achievements
- 123
Price and sales
- Sales
- 103 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 March 2022
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 17 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
March 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 103 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Octodad: Dadliest Catch ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Surgeon Simulator 2 ($1.99, scores 0).
More about Surgeon Simulator
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 11 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
34 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 317 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 4,745 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
3.3 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
a really fun and nostalgic game. I remember seeing youtubers like PewDiePie playing it back in 2016 (or even later, I don't remember). 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Memey game that relies on the impossibility of its controls, a good laugh for a short while but you could also achieve that with watching a YT video of it
The game just decides not to let you hold stuff for more than three seconds, I would pay NOT to have played this game. DO NOT BUY 0/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 7800 GT or better, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Surgeon Simulator scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233720/surgeon-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.